(also "coming over the top") a downswing path or plane above, or over, the correct or desired plane, causing the path of the club through impact to be across from outside to inside t [..]

Over the Top is a commonly used term in golf instruction and generally carries a negative connotation. It is meant to describe a swing that has a steeper downswing plane as compared to the backswing plane: the downswing plane is “over the top” of the backswing plane. This move is commonly associated with slicing, though the two are not necessarily [..]

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Going ‘over the top’ was a colloquial term for an infantry charge requiring soldiers to leave the trenches and advance toward the enemy.

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To exit front line trenches to attack the enemy was to 'go over the top'.

Phrs. Extremely exaggerated, outrageous, beyond a joke. Cf. O.T.T. {Informal}

Generally, this term refers to any instance of achieving a score higher than a particular machine's ability to count it. The player's score went "over the top". On EM games with bu [..]

To play "over the top" is to send long high balls forward into the attacking third so that they drop behind the fullbacks, with the intention of creating attacking opportunities for strikers or wing forwards.  

When the shoulders have turned too early, towards the target, in the forward swing causing the club head to swing in the wrong direction through the ball top

==Interjection== *year=1919|title=This is that: Personal Experiences, Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson|page=353|author= |passage=OVER THE TOP TO VICTORY. / Finally be of good courage, fe [..]